The number of people having tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Luxembourg stands at 3,894 (up six from Monday), including 102 fatalities (up one) resulting from the virus, as of early evening on Tuesday 12 May 2020.
Of those people having tested positive for coronavirus to date, 3,153 are residents and 741 are non-residents. The average age of those testing positive is 46, with the ratio of men to women being 51.11% / 48.89%, while the median age of the victims (excluding one patient from the Grand Est) who lost their lives to the virus is 84.5 (average age: 83). The number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 is 88; this figure includes 22 patients (excluding those transferred from the Grand Est) in intensive care. Nevertheless, 886 have been discharged from hospital (including certain short-term stays). The reproduction rate (Rt) of the virus stands at 0.995.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Luxembourg has carried out a total of 56,394 tests (44,419 on residents, 11,975 on non-residents); currently there are 182 people known to be infected while 3,610 have reportedly recovered from COVID-19. From mid-May, Luxembourg's authorities plan to ramp up testing to 20,000 tests per day in an effort to test the entire population within one month.
As a reminder, the COVID-19 national hotline is tel: 8002-8080; the hotline for calls made outside Luxembourg is tel: 497-719200.
The above graph shows the evolution of the spread of coronavirus in the Grand Duchy on a daily basis since 1 March 2020, with the orange line showing the daily numbers averaged over the past week; the graph below shows the total figures (cumulative) over the same period.
